General Road and Highway Discussion

[danbrotherston]

Hopefully ~7M is closer to the actual number.  But I still stand by the point, 7M buys the entire downtown grid. For cycling, there are more cost effective (and frankly, in most ways better) alternatives, but those alternatives do not meet GRTs goals. This will still get described as a cycling project.

However ... that's $7M from the regional budget, and they would not be funding a cycling infrastructure in DTK, apart from the few regional roads. So, as long as this doesn't impact the city's plans, it still looks like a net win.

Actually, that isn't entirely true, while the city is paying for some (most) of the downtown grid, the region is expected to reconstruct several roads, such as Benton and Frederick which would come out of the region's budget.

The region still does still build cycling infra. Even if it didn't though, it will play into people's perceptions.